Eat Wheat: A Scientific and Clinically-Proven Approach to Safely Bringing Wheat and Dairy Back Into Your Diet

I follow Dr. Douillard via his emails, and have bought a few of his products (can't say enough about the Beet Root for gallbladder/liver) but haven't ever really taken any of his health plans seriously. They seemed too complicated or restrictive. But since I was able to get an inexpensive copy of this book for my Kindle, I thought, "why not?"I haven't been able to eat soy or wheat for about a decade and lately I have been wondering if something else is bothering my system but hadn't yet nailed down what. I am three week into a no dairy test and I don't really notice any difference. Growing ever more frustrated with limited food options I wanted to find a way to heal my body. This book may just be the ticket.I am only half done with the book but I already know it is going to help me. I keep a notebook beside me as I read and jot down important points and dietary and supplement recommendations. I have already scoped out some ingredients on Amazon (and added them to my wish list) and just this afternoon I made ghee for the very first time.Once I have completed the book and have a better idea of the full plan, I plan on starting to heal based on this book's recommendations. Maybe this year, for the first time in over a decade, I can enjoy a croissant on Christmas morning.Update:I followed a 6 week plan that I created based the information in his book, adding one or two new things at a time to keep it all from seeming overwhelming and also to allow my body to adapt a little more slowly.My digestion does feel a little better. I was traveling a couple of weeks ago and ate dairy and a little wheat (highly processed yucky stuff) and did fine. I ate some 16 grain (healthy) bread last weekend with some raw milk cheese along with a little wheat at Thanksgiving. No digestive issues but I did get canker sores in my mouth (one of my "wheat" reactions) but I did not get a skin rash (another of my wheat reactions). I don't think I am going to be able to add wheat back into my diet because of this.I am regularly drinking fenugreek tea with a drop or two of fennel oil. I also have been keeping the slipper elm, marshmallow and licorice tea in my diet (I do not boil it to concentrate it). I have always liked roasted dandelion root tea and continue to enjoy that.The hardest parts for me? Eating three meals a day and no snacks. I can't eat a lot at one time (must have a small stomach) and therefore can't eat enough to make it from one meal to the next without eating something in between. I am trying. The other hard part? The sleep schedule. I have always been a night owl (even as a small child) and I don't see myself ever changing that. I do get about 8 hours of sleep per night. One thing I am trying to do is to not eat for 13 hours overnight.In all honestly. I think Dr. Douillard has the holy grail to fix the majority of American's digestive issues. Even if you can't follow his program 100%, if you do the healing suggestions, most of the maintenance suggestions and do your best with seasonal eating, 3 meals a day and getting better sleep you will be doing yourself (and your body) a huge favor.

This is the book I've been looking for! Regardless of your view on origins, everyone knows that man has been eating gluten-containing grains for thousands of years AT LEAST. And widespread sensitivities to wheat and gluten are pretty new -- as in, decades, not centuries. So the idea that wheat sensitivities occur because "the human body can't digest wheat" has always struck me as bad science. But no one assuming the problem is the wheat was asking WHY we can't digest it! Thank you, thank you, thank, Dr. Douillard, for asking the right questions -- and finding answers.Toxic bodies and damaged guts are the primary factors (with several lesser contributors mentioned, as well). I'd suspected this, but Dr. Douillard confirmed, with plenty of research to back up his claims. This is a very well-documented book, with over 600 references! The author walks us through the science of what's really happening (and how we've been misled) in the first section of the book. In the second section, he gets into fixes.Dr. Douillard is an Ayurvedic practitioner, so there are a lot of Ayurvedic principles here. He supplements the ancient understanding, though, with modern science that backs up what the ancients knew. The instructions are detailed and specific, so anyone can follow them without confusion or fumbling to figure things out. And although some of these are radical LIFESTYLE changes for many people, all are gentle for the body.I disagree with Dr. Douillard's assessment of wheat and other gluten-containing grains as traditionally a fall-harvested, winter-only food. (And, oddly, wheat is found on the other seasonal food lists, as well.) But I agree, in principle, that it probably comprised a larger PROPORTION of the winter diet than the spring or summer diets, because it keeps well, where fruits and greens do not. Apart from that, I have some minor disagreements, but nothing that would substantially impact any of the key recommendations.As a nutritionist in training, I appreciate that most of these recommendations are basic healthy lifestyle recommendations. And yet, there's an acknowledgement that many of us have damaged digestion and "clogged" detoxification pathways and these need intentional help to heal. You'll find that here.The book could have used one more editing pass. It's pretty good overall, but there were a few places where it looked like maybe things were reworded and the sentences didn't quite get fixed, so there are fragments, and a couple places the numbers that are supposed to be superscript hyperlinks to references are actually just regular numbers and unlinked. That's a very minor quibble, though. Overall, the formatting is clean, with profuse hyperlinking to make it easy to move about the book (especially to the numerous references), and there's even a pretty thorough index (also hyperlinked)!Basically, whether you can eat wheat or not, if you're American, just buy and read the book. It's well worth it.